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Posted: 2006-04-01 11:04pm
by Utsanomiko
Mrs Kendall wrote:This is a very sick april fools joke dude, I hope everyone remembers how stupid you are for making fun of people with mental disorders. :roll:
I'll have to erase an entry on my 'immature dumb shit Darthdavid has done' notebook to make room, or squeeze it under 'first several hundred posts were almost pure gibberish.'

Posted: 2006-04-02 12:38am
by ArmorPierce
I've read that people who are suicidal often do tell people around them that they are thinking about suicide to see the reaction it gets or something.

Posted: 2006-04-02 01:04am
by Lord Pounder
ArmorPierce wrote:I've read that people who are suicidal often do tell people around them that they are thinking about suicide to see the reaction it gets or something.
Really? Because I know several people who did commit suicide and they told no-one. And neither did I when I tried it.

Posted: 2006-04-02 01:23am
by Noble Ire
Well david, you can either come back now, as the joke season is officially over, and fess up to your bad taste and be done with it, or you can sit around for a few days, giggling as you watch this thread, hoping people will post worriedly about you. I sure as hell won't.

Or, you know, you're dead. Which I doubt. But if the final option is true, response is, of course, optional.

Posted: 2006-04-02 01:24am
by Gandalf
Noble Ire wrote:Well david, you can either come back now, as the joke season is officially over, and fess up to your bad taste and be done with it, or you can sit around for a few days, giggling as you watch this thread, hoping people will post worriedly about you. I sure as hell won't.
I'd wager he's waiting until he thinks it's been forgotten.

Posted: 2006-04-02 01:33am
by GrandMasterTerwynn
Gandalf wrote:
Noble Ire wrote:Well david, you can either come back now, as the joke season is officially over, and fess up to your bad taste and be done with it, or you can sit around for a few days, giggling as you watch this thread, hoping people will post worriedly about you. I sure as hell won't.
I'd wager he's waiting until he thinks it's been forgotten.
The Senate has a very long memory. One does not make light of something so serious and expect to get away with it scot-free.

Posted: 2006-04-02 01:46am
by darthdavid
Well it's obviously AF, as I wouldn't be posting otherwise. Probably not the smartest joke, and I would've pointed it out to be one sooner if I hadn't been in NYC today to see chicago on broadway with my school's music department. Sorry if I actually scared anyone. Anyway though anyone who's ever talked to me on the actual subject of suicide will know that I'm actually very strongly anti-suicide (though I do believe that if someone is in actual pain of a great enough degree (such as from cancer or some such) then they have every right to off themself if they want to). Again, sorry for the inappropriate joke.

Posted: 2006-04-02 01:50am
by Stofsk
darthdavid wrote:Well it's obviously AF, as I wouldn't be posting otherwise. Probably not the smartest joke, and I would've pointed it out to be one sooner if I hadn't been in NYC today to see chicago on broadway with my school's music department. Sorry if I actually scared anyone. Anyway though anyone who's ever talked to me on the actual subject of suicide will know that I'm actually very strongly anti-suicide (though I do believe that if someone is in actual pain of a great enough degree (such as from cancer or some such) then they have every right to off themself if they want to). Again, sorry for the inappropriate joke.
I don't think you scared anyone. Rather, I think you pissed people off.

And it's not like bad-taste jokes haven't been made before to give you fair warning. But meh, not my problem.

Posted: 2006-04-02 01:58am
by Einhander Sn0m4n
Suicide really isn't funny. Ever.

DD, don't ever joke about suicide ever again or I'll beat you absolutely black-and-blue senseless!

Posted: 2006-04-02 03:44am
by Utsanomiko
We should deal with this Roman prophecy-style; punishment with death! Image

Posted: 2006-04-02 03:46am
by Uraniun235
darthdavid wrote:Well it's obviously AF, as I wouldn't be posting otherwise.
That's not obvious at all, lots of people don't successfully kill themselves.

Posted: 2006-04-02 03:48am
by Spanky The Dolphin
Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:Suicide really isn't funny. Ever.
Actually, I know some cases where it is. And I also know that kind of stuff is bad taste, but to be brutally honest, sometimes bad taste can be funny.

DD's joke was still bad, though, but at least he also apologised.

Posted: 2006-04-02 03:48am
by Stofsk
Uraniun235 wrote:
darthdavid wrote:Well it's obviously AF, as I wouldn't be posting otherwise.
That's not obvious at all, lots of people don't successfully kill themselves.
:lol:

Posted: 2006-04-02 03:53am
by 18-Till-I-Die
Sometimes in the worst way suicides can be funny, in the same way that schadenfreuda can sometimes be funny. Darwin awards and all that.

The thing is, even then, this was just poorly executed (no pun intended).

Posted: 2006-04-02 03:58am
by Hotfoot
Frankly, I think it each and every threat of suicide should be taken seriously. IP Trace the poster, call the ISP and local police department and inform them that a suicide threat has been made. If it's a serious situation, then you've saved a life. If it's a stupid fucking prank, than the prankster gets to deal with the aftermath, and maybe learns something about actions and consequences.

Even better if the prankster in question is a teenager living at home who has to explain things to his or her parents.

Posted: 2006-04-02 04:13am
by Spanky The Dolphin
What would you actually define as a threat, though?

Posted: 2006-04-02 04:15am
by Stofsk
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:What would you actually define as a threat, though?
"Goodbye cruel, cruel world, see you in hell fuckers."

It would have been ironic if DD had to explain this to the authorities.

Posted: 2006-04-02 08:16am
by Ace Pace
Heh, that would have been intresting a few dozen venting threads ago when I was depressed.

Posted: 2006-04-02 08:27am
by MKSheppard
Reminds me of a guy in jail; he always had to be kept in a straight jacket and wearing kevlar non-rip baggy clothes because he kept cutting himself. :lol:

Posted: 2006-04-02 08:29am
by MKSheppard
Anyway I don't know why you're all so upset; it was April 1st, everything's a joke on that day. :mrgreen:

Posted: 2006-04-02 08:39am
by Zero
Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:Suicide really isn't funny. Ever.

DD, don't ever joke about suicide ever again or I'll beat you absolutely black-and-blue senseless!
Sometimes, I find suicidal ideas I get kind of funny. I find it's the best way to deal with them, and sometimes, me and my friends joke about it.

"Hey, Joe, if you decide to kill yourself, give me a call. We can be like lemmings! Yay!"

Stupid shit like that. It is easier to deal with it that way, at least for me.

Posted: 2006-04-02 08:43am
by MKSheppard
Darth David got y'all, he pulled the best prank of this April Fools' and played y'all like saps. :D

Posted: 2006-04-02 08:46am
by MKSheppard
Hotfoot wrote:If it's a stupid fucking prank, than the prankster gets to deal with the aftermath, and maybe learns something about actions and consequences.
Nah. He got you good. Live with it. :D

Posted: 2006-04-02 08:52am
by Zero
MKSheppard wrote:Darth David got y'all, he pulled the best prank of this April Fools' and played y'all like saps. :D
Actually, my only post before he admitted he was being stupid was about how he wasn't serious, so no, I wasn't played at all.

Posted: 2006-04-02 09:37am
by Stark
MKSheppard wrote:Darth David got y'all, he pulled the best prank of this April Fools' and played y'all like saps. :D
I don't think anyone believed him. I certainly didn't: that doesn't excuse his pathetic attention-whoring.

Anyway, I still want to read his emo blog. I'm bored and I can't sleep. :)